{{short description|American accountant and sports executive}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}} '''Tony Tavares''' is an American accountant and sports executive. He has served as the team president for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League, and for the Anaheim Angels and Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball.
==Career== Tavares received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Roger Williams University.<ref name=security/> He became involved in arena management when he was hired as controller of the Providence Civic Center. He served as president of the Spectacor Management Group.<ref name=noteasy/>
In 1993, Tavares became the team president of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, an expansion team in the National Hockey League (NHL).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-02-sp-290-story.html|title=Ducks to Go With Youth, Build Slowly : Hockey: Anaheim club's president, Tony Tavares, plans to name a general manager, then search out young talent in drafts.|work=latimes|access-date=April 23, 2015}}</ref> He negotiated The Walt Disney Company's purchase of the Anaheim Angels of Major League Baseball, and became the head of Disney Sports Enterprises, running the Ducks and the Angels simultaneously.<ref name=noteasy>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-04-sp-9909-story.html|title=It's Not Easy Being The. . .Big Cheese|work=latimes|access-date=April 23, 2015}}</ref> When MLB took control of the Montreal Expos, Tavares was hired as team president to facilitate the sale of the franchise to new ownership.<ref name="security">{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-stars/headlines/20110119-stars-interim-president-tony-tavares-has-job-no-security.ece|title=Stars interim president Tony Tavares has job, no security |first=Mike|last=Heika|work=The Dallas Morning News|accessdate=April 23, 2015}}</ref> He remained with the franchise as they relocated to Washington, D.C., becoming the Washington Nationals. He stayed on as president until the team was sold to Ted Lerner in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1548491/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060109/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1548491/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=Q&A with Tony Tavares|work=Major League Baseball|accessdate=April 23, 2015}}</ref>
Tavares became the president and chief executive officer of the Sports Properties Acquisition Corporation. In 2011, Tavares was named the interim president of the Dallas Stars of the NHL, when they were in the process of being sold.<ref name=security/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nhl/news/story?id=6034420|title=Dallas Stars name Tony Tavares interim president|publisher=ESPN|accessdate=April 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://starsblog.dallasnews.com/2010/12/so-who-is-tony-tavares-and-how-could-he.html/|title=So who is Tony Tavares, and how could he help the Stars?|work=The Dallas Morning News|accessdate=April 23, 2015}}</ref> Later that year, he joined with Jerry Reinsdorf to form a group that explored purchasing the Phoenix Coyotes of the NHL during their bankruptcy.<ref>{{cite news |work=Arizona Republic |last=Halverstadt |first=Lisa |title=Group in talks with Glendale to purchase Phoenix Coyotes |url=http://www.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/2011/09/22/20110922phoenix-coyotes-group-talks-purchase.html|date=September 22, 2011 |accessdate=April 23, 2015}}</ref> In 2015, the city of Glendale, Arizona, hired Tavares to perform an audit on the finances of the Coyotes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2015/02/13/glendale-hires-ex-nhl-exec-audit-coyotes/23359185/|title=Glendale hires ex-NHL exec to audit Coyotes|date=February 13, 2015|work=azcentral|accessdate=April 23, 2015}}</ref>
==Personal life== Tavares and his wife, Elizabeth, have three children.<ref name=noteasy/>
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{{Washington Nationals Presidents}}
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